Posted on 12/21/2017 7:34:54 AM PST by Red Badger
Donald Trump this morning tweeted another love letter to Fox News Channel’s morning show Fox and Friends, faux-asking “Was @foxandfriends just named the most influential show in news?”
On Wednesday, web site Mediaite had named the FNC morning show the Most Influential In News Media for 2017, topping a list that also included, in reverse order, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, Matt Drudge, FNC star Sean Hannity, and CNN chief Jeff Zucker.
Mistaking Mediaite’s “most influential” for “best,” Trump crowed that the Trump News Network morning show hosts “deserve it” and that “the many Fake News Hate Shows should study your formula for success!”
As described by Mediaite in crowning the morning show No. 1, that “formula” works like this:
Trump regularly starts his day watching Fox & Friends and “then tweets about whatever they cover, and however, they cover it.” The rest of the media cover Trump’s tweets, and that makes Fox & Friends the nation’s assignment editor for the rest of the day.
” That is influence like few other media figures have ever enjoyed.”
Longtime NBC evening news anchor Tom Brokaw happened to be on MSNBC’s Morning Joe when the tweet landed and got asked to weigh in:
“[Trump] watches [F&F] because it reinforces what he believes,” Brokaw said. “Fox News…is on a jihad right now” against institutions of the government. “Newt Gingrigh looking into the camera and saying the FBI is a corrupt organization – three months earlier he’d said Bob Mueller is one of the great, distinguished public servants we have.”
“So, we’re at war here,” Brokaw said.
Trumps tweet:
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump
Was @foxandfriends just named the most influential show in news? You deserve it - three great people! The many Fake News Hate Shows should study your formula for success! 6:45 AM - Dec 21, 2017
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Yes Mr. Brokejaw, we are at war!
I noticed Tommy actually declared war, not Johnny.
Wow, some lib is going to have an aneurism soon. They are absolutely beside themselves. Gee, what a shame.
Muslims were at war with us for many years before more than a few of us recognized.
It’s the same with the MSM. They’ve been at war against America for many decades now and Brokaw admits it, sort of.
These people have become the deranged nutcases they condemned 8 years ago.
This guy’s still breathing?
Who is “we” Tom?
Name your fellow seditionists.
Not yet, Tommy Boy...this is just the gang-beatdown phase. We'll let you know when the real war begins you sanctimonious jackass.
So is Tom Brokaw threatening the President of the United States with war?
You know it’s getting good when the old farts in the MSM family are wetting their Depends like Tom Lockjaw and Dan Blather.
More distraction from the gaslight media.
Networks and political parties have been at war with each other for decades. Idiot brokaw is just pointing out the obvious because he can’t think of anything more clever.
They’re getting scared folks. Lockjaw knows damn well that many segments of the federal government are full of corruption. Lockjaw has been around a long time, and knows his side is in deep excrement if all of their treasonous activities are finally exposed.
Do you mean Tom Broke Jaw?
Hm isn’t reference to “Jihad” islamophobic? Also be careful Tom, you are letting your (7) viewers know that someone is talking about all the FBI corruption you won’t report.
BTW Tom, what you mistake for a “Jihad” is simply reporting the news, something your buddies stopped doing.
Actually, what Brokejaw said was “We be at wha hey...”
Peter Jennings went to Bilderberger meetings. Does Brokaw go?
Tom Brokajaw
“These people have become the deranged nutcases they condemned 8 years ago.”
These people have always been deranged nutcases. Deranged nutcases flock to the left, the sane flee.
Until the 1970s, they were widely known as “the lunatic fringe.” Why they are allowed to pretend to be a legitimate force, I’ll never know.
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